Carl and Hjelmar Rosenquist-1914

ROSENQUIST

Posted By: cheryl Locher moonen (email)
Date: 1/13/2020 at 16:00:08

Evening Times-Republican, Saturday, Jun 27, 1914, Marshalltown, IA, Page: 1

MISSING BOYS FOUND

Dubuque Lad Whom it Was Feared
Were Drowned Go Visiting

Special to the Times-Republican
Dubuque, June 27-Carl and Hjelmar Rosenquist, aged 7 and 9 years, residing with their parents on First Street, who last Monday disappeared from their home and whom it was believed had been drowned, have been discovered. They are reported visiting with a married sister who resides on an island in the Mississippir near Wapeton. The two lads had walked the ties on the Milwaukee Road, twenty miles, bare footed, having been “fed” once at a farm house along the road. Reaching Wapeton, the older told their mission and a fisherman who knew the husband of the married sister ferried them to her island home. They reached the shack, none the worse for wear, save they had prodigious appetites and were weary. They had slept one night on the route.